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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Assessing the Relationship of Working Memory to L2 Reading: Does the Nature of Comprehension Process and Reading Span Task Make a Difference?
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Alptekin, Cem; Ercetin, Gulcan – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
Although an important role has been ascribed to working-memory capacity in reading comprehension, little consensus exists on its conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement except for its recognition as a limited-capacity processing and storage system. One specific problem in the measurement of working memory comes from researchers' use…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Measurement
Cultural Familiarity in Inferential and Literal Comprehension in L2 Reading
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Alptekin, Cem – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2006
This study explores the role of culturally familiar background knowledge in inferential and literal comprehension in L2 reading. Ninety-eight Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign Language) university students were divided into two groups of equivalent English proficiency. They read either the original of an American short story or a "nativized"…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Familiarity, Second Language Learning, Inferences